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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 50 — THE SAY OF HAYKAR THE SAGE.[6]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

See text “Náhú” from ✓ “Nauh” = ceremonious keening for the dead. The general term for the wail is “Walwalah” or “Wilwál” (an onomatopy) and for the public wailing-woman “Naddábah.”

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